Collection Highlights
William Walton (1706-1768)
Date:
ca. 1750
Object Number:
1902.3
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sword, scabbard and sash : IIIW on knucle bow
Object Number:
1932.133a-c
Date:
1870-1900
Medium:
steel, leather; leather, brass; textile, brass, gilding
Dimensions:
without belt: 38 x 6 x 1 1/8 in. ( 96.5 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm )
Marks:
incised: on inside of knuckle-bow near pommel: "III VV"
Description:
Sword (saber) with curved, single-edged steel blade with broad fuller extending from hilt to within 7 1/2 inches of point; steel stirrup hilt with reverse P-type knuckle-bow pierced with hole for sword knot, plain shield-shaped langets, and curved quillon with cylindrical finial; black leather-covered grip with ridges; bird's head pommel with backstrap extending to ferrule at base of grip; leather scabbard with brass throat with circular frog stud and brass tip with oval finial; shoulder belt made of white webbing with oval gilded brass buckle with applied eagle decoration.
Gallery Label:
The sword is described as an early 18th-century "U.S. Army dragoon saber of German type" in the accession records (identification based on an illustration in Smithsonian Institution Research Bulletin No. 163, p. 34). It appears more likely, however, that this sword was made closer to the turn of the twentieth century, and was meant to replicate an earlier model.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, New York
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
